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No. 308,606. Patented Dec; 2, 1884.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT O FICEo I .IAKOB GRUSE, or CITY ISLAND, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,606, dated December 2, 1884.

Application filed October 15, 1883. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AKQB GRUsE, a citizen of the United 'States, residing at City Island, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Invalid-Gh'airs,of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined chair or lounge for invalid and surgical operations,with bathtub and commode attachments, and has for its objects to provide an easy chair for bed-room uses, an infants bath-tub, as a bath-tub for the use of patients with piles, as a tub for the convenience of patient in administering a vaginal douche, as aclose stool or night chair for sickness. These objects are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing the entire device as an easy chair or lounge. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line x x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the seat of the chair taken from the under side. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the chair, with some of the parts removed, showing the seat for the close stool. Fig. 5 is the mechanism for raising and lowering and holding the adjustable back at different angles to the seat removed and showing the construction in detail.

The letter A indicates the removable seat of the easy chair or lounge, which is provided with a rim, A, which fits over the top of the case for the bath-tub O.

B is the removable seat for the close stool.

G is the bath-tub, which may be removed from the case D, if desired. The case D is provided with a rubber edge, J, for the ease of the patient.

E are the detachable legs of the chair, four in number, which are secured to the case D by screws E, whereby they may be removed from the case when it is desired to do so.

F is the adjustable back, which is secured to the case D by the hinges G G" and the screw attachment H, by means of which the back F may be set and held at different angles by turning the wheel H, which is adapted to turn the screw H in either direction and cause the back F to rise or fall at different angles by the action of the nut H, which is secured thereto. The hinge G is composed of two lugs secured to the case D, and a rockshaft, G,having bearings therein. The rockshaft G is provided with a central opening, in which the lower end of the screw H is fitted and secured in such manner that it is permitted to turn freely therein.

I are hooks on the bottom of the case D, and are intended to hold the seat for the close stool B when not in use. These hooks are three in number, and are arranged with re spect to each other as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, so as to hold the seat B by the edges when not in use, the said seat being pushed in under the body A from the rear.

The seat A is intended to be upholstered, as shown in the drawings, and also thestoolseat B.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and to claim The combination, in an invalid chair or couch, of the hollow body or case D, provid? edwith hooks I at the bottom, and with supporting-legs E, and the removable seats A and B, the latter being adapted to be held at the edges by the hooks when not in use, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AKOB GRUSE.

Witnesses:

E. W. WATERHOUSE, E. G. WVHIrrLEsEY. 

